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"December 7, 1941, a date which will live in infamy"...President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.

World War II Memorial inscription controversy explained here.
Kilroy was here  

Did You Know?
Time Magazine, in their May 3, 2004, review of the new World War II Memorial, critically commented, “Il Duce would have loved it.” Some of the early criticism of the memorial elements centered on their similarity to some of the Nazi and Fascist architecture of the 1930s and 1940s.

Last Updated: November 05, 2009 at 11:45 EST